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The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises
The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The consideration of thy own vileness, and emptiness; thy sin, and misery by reason of sin. And this will drive thee out of thy self.
2. The consideration of the fullness, riches, and all-sufficiency of Christ: who hath all fullness in him; who is able to save to the utmost: a bottom able to hold up any weight of sin.
2. The consideration of the fulness, riches, and al-sufficiency of Christ: who hath all fulness in him; who is able to save to the utmost: a bottome able to hold up any weight of sin.
3. The consideration of the freeness of Christ, and the Promise. God keeps open house; invites, entreats; beseecheth us to believe and come in.— Ho! Every one that thirsteth, come ye to the Waters, come buy ye that have no silver, and eat. Come buy Wine and Milk without money, &c. Isa. 55 1. And — He that comes to me (saith Christ, Joh. 6.37.) I will by no means cast out.— Let him that will come; whoever hath a mind, let him come. Be his sins what they will be for nature, for number, for continuance: yet come and find acceptance. — Who is a God like unto thee! That pardonest iniquity, and passest by the transgressions of the Remnant of thy heritage! Thou retainest not anger for ever; for thou delightest to show mercy, Mic. 7.18.
3. The consideration of the freeness of Christ, and the Promise. God keeps open house; invites, intreats; beseecheth us to beleeve and come in.— Ho! Every one that thirsteth, come yee to the Waters, come buy yee that have no silver, and eat. Come buy Wine and Milk without mony, &c.